Pace Gallery Seoul is unveiling two major solo exhibitions this spring, spotlighting seminal American sculptor Louise Nevelson and British painter Nigel Cooke. Both exhibitions will be on view from April 11 to May 17, 2025, across the gallery’s three-story space in Hannam-dong.
On the first floor, Louise Nevelson: The Fourth Dimension marks the artist’s first-ever solo presentation in Korea. This landmark show brings together Nevelson’s iconic sculptural reliefs and collage works, emphasizing the role of shadow and metaphysical form—what the artist described as “the fourth dimension.” Tracing her lifelong exploration of abstraction, the exhibition reveals how Nevelson engaged formal rigor and architectural composition to construct immersive, spiritual environments that defied categorization.
The exhibition forms part of Pace Gallery’s global initiative commemorating its 65th anniversary, which highlights 20th-century masters with whom the gallery has cultivated decades-long partnerships. Nevelson’s work, both radical and poetic, continues to influence generations of artists with its complex play of void and volume, structure and silhouette.
Meanwhile, the second and third floors of the gallery host Nigel Cooke: Sea Mirror, a solo exhibition featuring approximately 20 new paintings by the British artist. The works range from panoramic canvases to stylized portraits and abstract landscapes, many of which were created on the Spanish island of Formentera. The exhibition showcases a notable shift in Cooke’s practice toward more lyrical, gestural painting. Departing from densely layered allegorical imagery, the artist now engages themes of memory, myth, and transience through a looser, more poetic visual language.
A new publication accompanying the exhibition includes essays by author Chloe Aridjis and Milwaukee Art Museum Director Marcelle Polednik, offering deeper insight into Cooke’s evolving visual strategies.
Together, these two exhibitions reflect the breadth of Pace Gallery’s programming and its ongoing commitment to presenting bold voices in contemporary art, both past and present. Nevelson and Cooke, though from different generations and disciplines, each navigate time and form in ways that continue to resonate across cultural and geographic borders.
Pace Gallery Seoul is unveiling two major solo exhibitions this spring, spotlighting seminal American sculptor Louise Nevelson and British painter Nigel Cooke. Both exhibitions will be on view from April 11 to May 17, 2025, across the gallery’s three-story space in Hannam-dong.
On the first floor, Louise Nevelson: The Fourth Dimension marks the artist’s first-ever solo presentation in Korea. This landmark show brings together Nevelson’s iconic sculptural reliefs and collage works, emphasizing the role of shadow and metaphysical form—what the artist described as “the fourth dimension.” Tracing her lifelong exploration of abstraction, the exhibition reveals how Nevelson engaged formal rigor and architectural composition to construct immersive, spiritual environments that defied categorization.
The exhibition forms part of Pace Gallery’s global initiative commemorating its 65th anniversary, which highlights 20th-century masters with whom the gallery has cultivated decades-long partnerships. Nevelson’s work, both radical and poetic, continues to influence generations of artists with its complex play of void and volume, structure and silhouette.
Meanwhile, the second and third floors of the gallery host Nigel Cooke: Sea Mirror, a solo exhibition featuring approximately 20 new paintings by the British artist. The works range from panoramic canvases to stylized portraits and abstract landscapes, many of which were created on the Spanish island of Formentera. The exhibition showcases a notable shift in Cooke’s practice toward more lyrical, gestural painting. Departing from densely layered allegorical imagery, the artist now engages themes of memory, myth, and transience through a looser, more poetic visual language.
A new publication accompanying the exhibition includes essays by author Chloe Aridjis and Milwaukee Art Museum Director Marcelle Polednik, offering deeper insight into Cooke’s evolving visual strategies.
Together, these two exhibitions reflect the breadth of Pace Gallery’s programming and its ongoing commitment to presenting bold voices in contemporary art, both past and present. Nevelson and Cooke, though from different generations and disciplines, each navigate time and form in ways that continue to resonate across cultural and geographic borders.
